Gabment-stay



E. R. RASMUSSEN.

GARMENT STAY. APPLICATION min JAN. I0. 1918.

1,314,756. Patented Sept 2,1919.

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R. RASMUSSEN, 0F MILFORD, IOWA.

GARMENT-STAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1919.

Application filed January 10, 1918. Serial No. 211,108.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST R. RASMUSSEN, citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Milford, Dickinson county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Garment- Stay, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved construction for a garment stay, whereby end thrust or longitudinal movement of the stiffening member is absorbed and said member is prevented from Working or cutting through the upper or lower portion of a garment on which it is mounted.

A further object of this invention is to provide an improved construction for a garment stay in which the stiffening member is prevented from buckling at or near its central portion relative to a garment on which it is mounted.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a plan of devices embodying my invention, the same being shown at one point in the manufacture or construction thereof, preliminary to mounting the device on a garment. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a completed stay taken on a line centrally of one of the stiffening members, the fastenin means or rivets being shown conventional y.

In the construction of the device as shown the numeral 10 designates a base sheet or strip preferably made of fabric of material and considerable strength, such as duck. One or more stiffening members 11, 12, made of suitable material such as bone, steel, or the like, are mounted on and wholly within the margins of the sheet or strip 10, and, where two or more stiffening members are employed, they preferably are spaced apart substantially as shown. The stiffening members 11, 12 are secured directly to the sheet or strip 10, preferably by three spaced rivets 13 or 14 in each end and by two spaced rivets 15 at or near the center, which rivets extend through the sheet or strip 10 and also wholly through the stiffening members.

The sheet or strip 10 and the stiffening members 11, 12 connected substantially as described, are preferably wholly covered and lnclosed by a jacket 16 of suitable material such as thinner or ornamental fabric, the marginal portions of the jacket material being folded over the contents and the Whole secured together, such as by stitching along dotted lines 17, as shown in Fig. 1. The jacket wholly incloses and conceals the rivets, stiffening members and coarser material that may be employed in forming the base sheet or strip 10.

The stay as above described may be mounted on or in and be secured as by stitching to any desired garment, such as a dress, corset, jacket and the like.

Through the use of the rivets 13, 14:, 15 intimate and competent connection is assured between the base and stiffening members, which Will effectually prevent ends of said members Working or cutting through the enveloping jacket by longitudinal movement and also Will prevent buckling of central portions of the stiffening members relative to the base sheet or strip.

Through the use of the jacket 16 provision is made for covering and concealing the baser materials with substance simulating, matching or appropriate to the garment stayed.

I claim as my invention-- 1. A garment stay, comprising a base strip, a stiffening member mounted thereon and wholly contained within the margins thereof, rivets mounted in groups in each end and the central portion of said stiffening member and extending through the base strip, each of said groups comprising a plurality of spaced rivets, said groups being spaced and located res ectively near the center and ends of the sti enin member, and a fabric jacket enveloping sai base and members and wholly covering the ends of the rivets and secured by stitching.

2. A garment stay, comprising a base strip of relatively strong fabric, a plurality of stiffening members mounted on said strip, spaced apart and lying wholly within the margins thereof, rivets mounted in groups in each end and also in the central portion of each stiffening member and extending member, and a jacket of fabric enveloping said base and members and Wholly covermg the ends of the rivets and secured by stitching between the members, and between the margms of the members and the margins of the base. 7 t t Signed at Milford, in the county of Dickinson and State of Iowa, this 5th day of J anuary, 1918.

ERNEST R. RASMUSSEN.

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Washington, D. 0. r 

